Joan Scott, the founder and president of the talent and literary agency Writers and Artists, died of natural causes on Thursday, August 4 at her home in New York City. She was 98.
Scott was instrumental in starting the careers of many award-winning actors, including Harrison Ford, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, James Woods, Henry Winkler, Elizabeth McGovern, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and James Gandolfini, among others. She also furthered the publishing of writers George Wing, David Henry Hwang, Robert Schenkkan, David Magee, and Jonathan Larson, and directors Joe Mantello and Philip Noyce.
She also helped start the careers of many literary and talent agents who later moved on to run studios or become partners at bigger agencies.
Nellie Bellflower, an Academy Award nominee and producer of Finding Neverland, praised Scott’s loyalty. “Once you became her client, you also became her family.”
Born June 14, 1924 in New Jersey, Scott started her...
Scott was instrumental in starting the careers of many award-winning actors, including Harrison Ford, Danny Glover, Roy Scheider, James Woods, Henry Winkler, Elizabeth McGovern, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, and James Gandolfini, among others. She also furthered the publishing of writers George Wing, David Henry Hwang, Robert Schenkkan, David Magee, and Jonathan Larson, and directors Joe Mantello and Philip Noyce.
She also helped start the careers of many literary and talent agents who later moved on to run studios or become partners at bigger agencies.
Nellie Bellflower, an Academy Award nominee and producer of Finding Neverland, praised Scott’s loyalty. “Once you became her client, you also became her family.”
Born June 14, 1924 in New Jersey, Scott started her...
- 8/13/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
'Finding Neverland' movie: Johnny Depp as James M. Barrie, with the Llewelyn Davies family: Kate Winslet, Freddie Highmore, Joe Prospero, Nick Roud and Luke Spill. 'Finding Neverland' movie review: Losing reality Back in 2001, German-born director Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, World War Z) brought a much welcome non-Hollywood touch to the independently made psychological drama Monster's Ball. Besides the daring (if way overlong) sex scenes, that film imparted a refreshingly realistic atmosphere that was much enhanced by Forster's minimalist approach. As the title implies, his follow-up effort, Finding Neverland (2004), has absolutely nothing to do with reality, whether Peter Pan author James M. Barrie's or anyone else's. Even so, Forster's early, no-nonsense directorial touch is sorely missing from what is little more than your usual big-studio holiday movie whose “magical moments” might as well have been created by a computer. 'Finding Neverland' plot: James M. Barrie...
- 12/23/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
New Line Cinema has acquired Josh Golden's spec script "Road to Oz" which chronicles the early days of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum.
Baum was a prolific writer who penned that famed book and its thirteen sequels. He also wrote over two dozen other books. The plan is to lock in a director Asap, while the script itself has been nominated for the Nicholls Fellowship award to be announced next month.
Nellie Bellflower, who produced the J.M. Barrie biopic "Finding Neverland," worked with Golden and Michael Mislove on developing the script. Bellflower, Mislove and Beau Flynn will produce the feature.
Source: THR...
Baum was a prolific writer who penned that famed book and its thirteen sequels. He also wrote over two dozen other books. The plan is to lock in a director Asap, while the script itself has been nominated for the Nicholls Fellowship award to be announced next month.
Nellie Bellflower, who produced the J.M. Barrie biopic "Finding Neverland," worked with Golden and Michael Mislove on developing the script. Bellflower, Mislove and Beau Flynn will produce the feature.
Source: THR...
- 9/20/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Though the animated Thundarr the Barbarian series was only on the air for two seasons and 21 episodes, it's earned a place in the memories of kids who grew up in the early 1980s.
Thundarr takes place in the year 3994. Civilization on Earth is in ruin after a runaway planet sped between Earth and the moon and unleashed "cosmic destruction." The planet is divided into territories that are ruled by magic and science. Thundarr (Bob Ridgely), a barbarian, and his friends Ookla the Mok (Henry Corden) and sorceress Princess Ariel (Nellie Bellflower) travel the countryside and use their powers, courage, and wits to liberate enslaved humans and battle mutants, wizards, thieves and robots.
The complete series has just been released on DVD in a four disc set. It sells for $29.95 from the Warner Archive Collection. You can also try to win a...
Thundarr takes place in the year 3994. Civilization on Earth is in ruin after a runaway planet sped between Earth and the moon and unleashed "cosmic destruction." The planet is divided into territories that are ruled by magic and science. Thundarr (Bob Ridgely), a barbarian, and his friends Ookla the Mok (Henry Corden) and sorceress Princess Ariel (Nellie Bellflower) travel the countryside and use their powers, courage, and wits to liberate enslaved humans and battle mutants, wizards, thieves and robots.
The complete series has just been released on DVD in a four disc set. It sells for $29.95 from the Warner Archive Collection. You can also try to win a...
- 10/18/2010
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
So fluffy that it threatens to blow off the screen at any moment, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day sustains itself through terrific forward momentum and two glorious star turns by gifted actresses Frances McDormand and Amy Adams.
This is a self-described "fairy tale for adults," set in a Noel Coward London of 1939 with ornate and spacious flats, actresses of easy virtue, lavish cocktail parties and sophisticated men and women who trade quips (and an occasional punch) with the flick of a cigarette. McDormand's penniless, middle-age governess crosses paths with Adams' flighty but ambitious American actress for a mere day, which is enough to transform the lives of both women.
The film, adapted by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy from a newly rediscovered 1939 novel by Winifred Watson, comes at you in a whirlwind of comic coincidences, sentimental yearnings, amorous betrayals and rapid costume changes. The Focus Features release, an enjoyable as it is forgettable, should find enthusiasm among older audiences in specialized venues -- those who can either remember 1939 or at least imagine it. A clutch of musical standards from that era by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Yip Harburg wrap the package in a nostalgic glow.
Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, fired again for a personality clash with her latest employer, hits the streets homeless, broke and dazzlingly disheveled and mousy. Nobody does disheveled and mousy like McDormand. But an extreme makeover is just around the corner. What she first encounters around that corner is Delysia -- as in Delicious -- Lafosse, Adams' effervescent take on a Depression-era, self-absorbed actress desperate enough to sleep her way to the top.
As Pettigrew enters a lavishly appointed penthouse for an interview as a "social secretary" -- a position for which she has no experience -- those sleeping arrangements have tripped Delysia up. The man in her bed, Phil (Tom Payne), a junior impresario about to cast the lead in his next musical, is not the owner of the flat. That would be Nick (Mark Strong), owner of the nightclub where Delysia sings -- who is on his way up at that moment.
Pettigrew extricates Delysia from this predicament with such world-weary aplomb that you wonder where these particular skill sets come from. Nevermind, she will continue to work her "magic" during the course of the next 24 hours, providing advice and comfort that place Delysia in the path of true love -- that being her besotted pianist Michael (Lee Pace) -- while sorting out a broken engagement between fashion industry maven Joe (Ciaran Hinds) and his gold-digging fiancee Edythe (Shirley Henderson). She also finds true love herself.
McDormand is grounded enough in a kind of no-nonsense pragmatism that feels more like Fargo than Mayfair that you can totally buy her twinkling-of-an-eye transformation into a savvy social negotiator. Adams more or less reprises her princess from Enchanted, only with a beguiling touch of ditzy naughtiness.
The Battle of Britain has been moved up a year so that air raid sirens and bombers rumbling in night sky can provide a "serious" backdrop to this foppish folly. This doesn't really work, but it causes little harm, either. Miss Pettigrew remains a romantic comedy where people break down in the midst of a torch song and the heart finds its way despite ribald distractions.
Bharat Nalluri provides well-paced direction with the lightest of touches, while the respective costume and production designers, Michael O'Connor and Sarah Greenwood.
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY
Focus Features
A Kudos Pictures/Keylight Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Screenwriters: David Magee, Simon Beaufoy
Based on the novel by: Winifred Watson
Producers: Nellie Bellflower, Stephen Garrett
Executive producer: Paul Webster
Director of photography: John de Borman
Production designer: Sarah Greenwood
Music: Paul Englishby
Co-producer: Kame Frazer
Costume designer: Michael O'Connor
Editor: Barney Pilling
Cast:
Guinevere Pettigrew: Frances McDormand
Delysia Lafosse: Amy Adams
Michael: Lee Pace
Joe: Ciaran Hinds
Edythe: Shirley Henderson
Nick: Mark Strong
Phil: Tom Payne
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
This is a self-described "fairy tale for adults," set in a Noel Coward London of 1939 with ornate and spacious flats, actresses of easy virtue, lavish cocktail parties and sophisticated men and women who trade quips (and an occasional punch) with the flick of a cigarette. McDormand's penniless, middle-age governess crosses paths with Adams' flighty but ambitious American actress for a mere day, which is enough to transform the lives of both women.
The film, adapted by David Magee and Simon Beaufoy from a newly rediscovered 1939 novel by Winifred Watson, comes at you in a whirlwind of comic coincidences, sentimental yearnings, amorous betrayals and rapid costume changes. The Focus Features release, an enjoyable as it is forgettable, should find enthusiasm among older audiences in specialized venues -- those who can either remember 1939 or at least imagine it. A clutch of musical standards from that era by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Yip Harburg wrap the package in a nostalgic glow.
Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, fired again for a personality clash with her latest employer, hits the streets homeless, broke and dazzlingly disheveled and mousy. Nobody does disheveled and mousy like McDormand. But an extreme makeover is just around the corner. What she first encounters around that corner is Delysia -- as in Delicious -- Lafosse, Adams' effervescent take on a Depression-era, self-absorbed actress desperate enough to sleep her way to the top.
As Pettigrew enters a lavishly appointed penthouse for an interview as a "social secretary" -- a position for which she has no experience -- those sleeping arrangements have tripped Delysia up. The man in her bed, Phil (Tom Payne), a junior impresario about to cast the lead in his next musical, is not the owner of the flat. That would be Nick (Mark Strong), owner of the nightclub where Delysia sings -- who is on his way up at that moment.
Pettigrew extricates Delysia from this predicament with such world-weary aplomb that you wonder where these particular skill sets come from. Nevermind, she will continue to work her "magic" during the course of the next 24 hours, providing advice and comfort that place Delysia in the path of true love -- that being her besotted pianist Michael (Lee Pace) -- while sorting out a broken engagement between fashion industry maven Joe (Ciaran Hinds) and his gold-digging fiancee Edythe (Shirley Henderson). She also finds true love herself.
McDormand is grounded enough in a kind of no-nonsense pragmatism that feels more like Fargo than Mayfair that you can totally buy her twinkling-of-an-eye transformation into a savvy social negotiator. Adams more or less reprises her princess from Enchanted, only with a beguiling touch of ditzy naughtiness.
The Battle of Britain has been moved up a year so that air raid sirens and bombers rumbling in night sky can provide a "serious" backdrop to this foppish folly. This doesn't really work, but it causes little harm, either. Miss Pettigrew remains a romantic comedy where people break down in the midst of a torch song and the heart finds its way despite ribald distractions.
Bharat Nalluri provides well-paced direction with the lightest of touches, while the respective costume and production designers, Michael O'Connor and Sarah Greenwood.
MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY
Focus Features
A Kudos Pictures/Keylight Entertainment production
Credits:
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Screenwriters: David Magee, Simon Beaufoy
Based on the novel by: Winifred Watson
Producers: Nellie Bellflower, Stephen Garrett
Executive producer: Paul Webster
Director of photography: John de Borman
Production designer: Sarah Greenwood
Music: Paul Englishby
Co-producer: Kame Frazer
Costume designer: Michael O'Connor
Editor: Barney Pilling
Cast:
Guinevere Pettigrew: Frances McDormand
Delysia Lafosse: Amy Adams
Michael: Lee Pace
Joe: Ciaran Hinds
Edythe: Shirley Henderson
Nick: Mark Strong
Phil: Tom Payne
Running time -- 92 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 3/3/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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